On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:25:19AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 06:24:09PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 05:40:17PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > > Debconf database corruption might have happened for other reasons, and > > > > I'd expect it to have affected more packages. > > When testing on a quite large set of packages, only dictionaries-common > seems to be affected.
dictionaries-common is the only one that complains about that, not necessarily the one causing the corruption. However that heavy complaint was intended to appear only when no reasonable workaround was possible. However, for not simple corruptions this seems not the case. > > Note that this debconf database corruption is unlikely to have its origin > > in dictionaries-common, it is probably caused by the combination of a > > package and special circumstances. If dictionaries-common was to blame I > > would have received a flood of bug reports about this. > > Here's a reproducer: > * install wheezy > * install dictionaries-common > * rm -rf /var/cache/* > * dist-upgrade to jessie In that case, you cannot expect your system to behave normally again without a litte help. For selected values you can save them outside debconf, but for things like shared questions you only save the selections, but not the shared questions. Unless you regenerate the database, at least debconf shared questions will not behave sanely. I trusted owners of a debconf shared question to provide info about available possibilities, and this will not work in such a big corruption. Fortunately, once package is unpacked dictionaries-common has access to the same info provided by the shared question, so I am changing code run in postinst to use it. Current code for checking defaults is run at config and at that stage only debconf info is expected to be available, this is why it was not working as expected in this case. Expect an upload soon with the above changes, once I test things a bit more. This should show a saner behavior. Thanks for your feedback, Regards, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
